Tag: Impact Hub Community

How the Social Challenges Innovation Platform Matches Social Challenges with Innovative Solution Providers

June 26, 2019 | Aneta Pawlik

How do small and medium-sized enterprises and social innovation fit together? Often referred to as the backbone of the European economy, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are a focal point […]
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Spotlight: An interview with Bubbles & Kraut

May 4, 2018 | Baldwin Tong

Longtime Impact Hub members Myounghee Jo and Alexander Bachinger have just launched Bubbles & Kraut, a social venture addressing the food waste problem through fermentation. They offer workshops and sell […]
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Spotlight: An interview with Alexey Chernikov about Reji, a language learning app.

April 1, 2018 | Baldwin Tong

Reji is a subscription based iPhone/iPad app that helps you learn new vocabulary with correct pronunciation using customizable flashcards. It is the third app from Twopeople Software, a nascent startup specializing in language […]
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Spotlight: Don’t grow older, grow WisR!

January 17, 2018 | Baldwin Tong

Only seven months ago, we spoke with Klaudia Bachinger about her dreams for her fledgling startup WisR. Since then, the company has added two Co-founders (Carina Roth, Chief Financial […]
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Spotlight: How to be goood! A conversation with Georg Woschnagg and Claudia Winkler

December 4, 2017 | Baldwin Tong

Georg Woschnagg and Claudia Winkler are Co-Founders of goood, a mobile phone service provider where 10% of your monthly fees are donated to a social cause or charity of your […]
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Spotlight: A conversation with Dimitrios Prodromou of Humanizing Technologies

November 6, 2017 | Baldwin Tong

Dimitrios Prodromou is the Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer of Humanizing Technologies, a company that advises, sells, and develops applications for social robots. Their current focus is Pepper, the most […]
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Spotlight: A conversation with Sabine Kampmüller of AFYA

September 18, 2017 | Baldwin Tong

Sabine Kampmüller is the founder of AFYA, an organization that works on intercultural health promotion. Their current mission is to support children and adolescents who suffer from post-traumatic stress. Prior […]
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10 Questions with Hub Member Karin Lachmann

August 23, 2017 | Baldwin Tong

She’s a talented artist who laughs easily with a plenty of joy and a lot of mirth and she grew up in the middle of a forest. Karin Lachmann is […]
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Spotlight: 10 Questions with Hub Member Marlene Welzl

July 18, 2017 | Baldwin Tong

Marlene Welzl radiates with positive energy, kindness, and a true spirit. She is a key member of WGE! Gemeinsam Wohnen, an organisation that promotes and facilitates mixed generational housing […]
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Spotlight: A Conversation with Mario Milaković of Yugodom

July 4, 2017 | Baldwin Tong

Yugodom is a stay-over museum that’s redefining the hospitality experience. Located in the heart of downtown Belgrade in the Dorćol neighbourhood, Yugodom gives visitors and locals the opportunity to […]
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Spotlight: A Conversation with Karin Lachmann of wir.agency

June 27, 2017 | Baldwin Tong

Online conversations are not one-to-one. Communication strategies are constantly in a state of flux and many companies are finding it difficult to break through the information noise in the […]
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How a Start-Up in Vienna Creates Win-Win Situations for Wine-Lovers, Small Businesses & Mother Earth

June 20, 2017 | Sheeva Sefyi

What if I told you that you could help reduce fossil fuels by drinking locally harvested wine? That’s right – you heard me. No giving up your beloved steaks. […]
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Party Like it’s Impact Hub Vienna’s 7th Birthday – A Recap

June 12, 2017 | Aneta Pawlik

On the April the 6th Impact Hub Vienna’s warm interior was filled with go-getters, changemakers, music, laughter and cake. Over two months later after Impact Hub Vienna’s birthday party celebrating […]
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Spotlight: A conversation with Klaudia Bachinger of WisR

June 9, 2017 | Baldwin Tong

WisR is a networking platform that matches job-seeking, talented elderly people to young entrepreneurs and innovative employers. The goal of the project is to re-integrate the elderly into the working environment, […]
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Spotlight: WGE!-Gemeinsam Wohnen

May 17, 2017 | Baldwin Tong

WGE!-Gemeinsam Wohnen is establishing a model of shared multigenerational living in Vienna. They arrange and supervise shared living between elderly and young people enhancing mutual activities and support while keeping the rent lower […]
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